Banner Health will shutter its emergency room at McKee Medical Center later this year, transitioning the Loveland hospital into a specialty hospital focusing on surgery and cancer care, the health care system announced Sept. 4.

The emergency room will close Nov. 5. Emergency services will continue at Banner Health's two other area hospitals: Banner North Colorado Medical Center in Greeley and Banner Fort Collins Medical Center. UCHealth Medical Center of the Rockies will become the only Loveland hospital with an emergency room.

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